[VicVega]

force doctors and hospitals to accept what people could afford to pay.

My great grandfather accepted what people could pay. ,
Lots of chicken was eaten in the household.

[ez]

You mistake my post...I mean let the market set the price. IOW what the people, as a whole, can afford to pay. Like the way we set the cost of a loaf of bread. Insurance allows the hospitals and doctors to escalate their fees until ordinary folks could never afford to pay them.